Sport glove



Sept. 23 1924 D. B. wALTRs SPORT GLOVE Filed Nov. 23. 1922 inventor 3.5:YMZZhf,

Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES DELONIA B. WALTERS, F BALLENGEE, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPORT GLOVE.

Application filed November 23, 1922.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that DELONIA B. War/rants,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Ballengee, in the county of Summers and State of West Virinia, has invented new and useful Improvements in Sport Gloves, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a sport or ball players gloveand more particularly to provide in connection with a ball players glovea guard for the fingers whereby the straining thereof by backwardbending or the injury thereof by terminal impact of the ball may beprevented without detracting from the freedom of movement of the hand ofthe latter in those directions necessary to a proper handling of theball; and with these objects in view the invention consists in aconstruction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment isshown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view of aglove of the type ordinarily used by basemen and fielders wherein thereis shown in dotted lines a reinforcing or guard member embodying theinvention.

Figure 2 is a detail view of the reinforcing or guard member detachedfrom the glove.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the glove taken longitudinally in theplane of one of the fingers.

The device consists essentially of a flat plate with which are connectedfiat j ointed finger elements 11, each finger element having a stop orrule joint connection as shown at 12 with the back-hand plate andconsisting of a plurality of sections corresponding with the joints ofthe fingers, with similar joints 13 between the sections to the end thatthe sections of each finger element and each finger element withrelation to the back-hand plate may be folded inwardly or forwardly inthe direction of the closing or clasping of the hand of the wearer withSerial No. 602,784.

entire freedom but can not be moved in the opposite direction beyond acommon plane or straight line. This back-hand plate and finger elementsare disposed at the back of the hand and are embedded between inner andouter padding 14C and 15 enclosed within the cover 16 of the glove whichin other respects may correspond with the conventional types now incommon use, so that the cover of the glove is protected from wear by thereinforcing device which in turn is protected from contact with the ballor other object grasped by the hand of the wearer, and preferably theterminals of the finger elements project slightly beyond the ends of thefingers of the wearer so that in the event of the ball striking the endsof the fingers the impact thereof is received by the reinforcing memberrather than by the end of the wearers finger and the risk of broken ordistorted fingers is minimized while the strains and sprains incident toviolent backward bending of the fingers at the joints is eliminated.

Having described the invention, what it claimed as new and useful is Aglove for the purpose indicated having inner and outer padding disposedat the back of the hand, and a reinforcing member consisting of a flatplate and flat jointed finger elements, said plate and finger elementsbeing embedded between said inner and outer padding, and the fingerelements having rule joint connections with the plate and consistingeach of a plurality of sections similarly jointed together to providefor inward folding movement of said finger elements but to limit outwardmovement of the same to the plane of the plate, the free extremities ofthe finger elements projecting slightly beyond the ends of the fingersof the wearer to protect the fingers from the impact of an object.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

DELONIA B. \VALTERS.

